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A musical solution
The value of Eighth Nerve acoustic products is the revolutionary way in which
they work. Rather than merely sopping up sound with excessive dampening, they
combine reflection with dampening and diffusion. Rather than killing the
precious sound musicians strive to produce, our products cure acoustic problems
without stripping vital harmonic information. Eighth Nerve controllers control
room acoustics without dampening the vitality from the space. We believe that
many competing treatments leave rooms feeling unbalanced and unfulfilling for
music making.
Your teaching studio, rehearsal room, home theater or listening room
There is no mystery in regulating the acoustics of your space. Learning to
identify the pressure zones unique to your room will teach you all you need to
know to maximize the space's potential. Treating the pressure zones equalizes
your room, which implicitly solves many acoustic problems.
Everything the human ear registers as sound is simply a fluctuation in air
pressure. As these disturbances in air pressure travel within a space, they
interact with the architectural features of that space. Imagine the vapor of dry
ice traveling across the floor or smoke gathering at the ceiling. The particles
build against and move along the uninterrupted planes of a room, i.e. walls,
floor, and ceiling. Sound behaves in a similar way, albeit in waves that travel
much more quickly.
Sound moves from its source outward to the walls,
floor, and ceiling (the room's boundaries). As the waves reach those surfaces
they pool into pockets of sound pressure. This buildup of pressure is a pressure
zone. These zones are dictated by the shape, construction materials, and
relationships among the room's boundaries.
Untreated pressure zones hamper musicians and listeners with distortion, echo,
and unbalanced regions of the harmonic spectrum. Eighth Nerve Products tame
spaces using methodology that is inherently musical- destroy distortion and
preserve musical energy.
Most rooms share similar pressure zones because they have similar construction.
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Corners at the ceiling
The most crucial areas to treat are where room surfaces meet. There, the
traveling sound rebounds against oncoming sound pressure as well as a new
physical barrier- another wall surface. It stands to reason that this effect
will be most pronounced in corners where two walls and the ceiling converge.
This shape acts somewhat like a concert shell or megaphone, amplifying and
distorting sound. By using products mounted in the corners, this horn loading
affect is foiled, and the sound pressure of that zone is attenuated.
Wall/wall and wall/ceiling Seams
The secondary pressure zones in most rooms are where walls meet one another. A
similar zone exists in the middle of a wall where it meets the ceiling.
Placement of products in these areas drains high levels of sound pressure while
sound rebounds from their reflective surfaces.
Mid-wall and Mid-ceiling
Frequently rooms are too live for healthy, musically productive listening. In
these circumstances, Eighth Nerve products are used to drain sound pressure from
the room by capturing energy traveling along the wall surfaces. Dimensions and
construction materials of the room dictate both number and placement of these
products.
Lack of sound pressure
Sometimes, rooms have acoustical oddities as a result of too little sound
pressure in important areas. Rooms with open doorways, sloping ceilings,
unsymmetrical furnishings and windows, or strange dimensions pose a different
challenge.
Products are then placed to create balancing pools of sound pressure.
These tools allow the user to equalize sound pressure by creating moveable
barriers. Even in acoustically balanced rooms, they yield rich results for
ensemble players, recording technicians and audio enthusiasts.
Advanced treatments
While these concepts apply to most rooms, some architectural designs defy simple
treatment. If you are interested in learning more about how to treat your space,
call us now,
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"The
new line is a premium product. It is designed to be attractive and inconspicuous
as well as effective. It outperforms all other products. These products trap and
eliminate more corner distortion than the Response products. They are built into
a frame, which in addition to improving their performance also greatly improves
the aesthetics. They're adaptable as well, allowing a slight tailoring of the
resultant frequency response with their adjustable mounts. The performance
increase they bring due to their innovative design and application has prompted
us to file for protection from duplication. All of the products in this line are
patent-pending."
